# iMOD User Manual version 5.2 (html)

#### 7.2Timeseries Tool

WHY?
The Timeseries Tool can be used to view timeseries directly for data stored in different IDF-files. These can be combined with timeseries that are associated to IPF-files.

WHAT?
The Timeseries Tool allows you to point at a particular location inside the full extent of an IDF-file with time-dependent data. iMOD will construct a timeseries for that particular location by collecting all data from the other related time-dependent IDF-files. Related time-dependent IDF-files have identical names but have a different date string. A date string is an eight digit continuous number, e.g. 20091231 meaning the 31${}^{th}$ of December 2009. It is not necessary to load all related time-dependent IDF-files in the iMOD Manager. At least one is sufficient to view the entire timeseries.

Example of IDF-files (A,B and/or C) available in the iMOD Manager prior to the start of the Timeseries Tool:

HOW?
To start the Timeseries Tool select Toolbox from the main menu, choose Timeseries Tool. Alternatively, you can click the Timeseries button (   ) at the main toolbar. In both cases, you should select at least one IDF-file in the iMOD Manager that has a date notation in its name. This is a continuous number with eight-digits (yyyymmdd), e.g. 20110115. In this case, it represents the 15${}^{th}$ of January, 2011. If iMOD can not find such a date notation somewhere in the filename (in at least one of the selected IDF-files), the following window will appear and the Timeseries Tool will not start.

Warning window:

If a proper IDF-file(s) has been selected in the iMOD Manager, the following window will appear.

Note: You should select at least one IDF with date information in its file name, other IDF-files that are selected without a date information, will be displayed as time-constant. In this way you can easily make a combination with time-variant information (e.g. heads) and time-invariant information (e.g. surfacelevel).

Note: When you select an IPF with associated time series, these time series will be displayed simultaneously with those obtained from the IDF-file(s). In case you specify one IDF and one IPF, the option to compute differences between them becomes available.

##### 7.2.1Draw Timeseries

The Draw Timeseries window consists of three tabs. The IPF Options tab is only available when IPF-files are loaded.

Draw Timeseries window, Graph tab:

Note: Whenever you move the mouse over the Timeseries graphical window, the current coordinates are displayed below the graph. It shows the current date (x-axis) and the corresponding value on the y-axis. It shows Current Value: x-axis 14/2/1997; y-axis: -1.154.

Note: Whenever you include an IPF-file with associated timeseries, iMOD will display the timeserie(s) of the point of the IPF that nearest to the current location of the mouse. You can fixate a particular point on the IPF-options tab.

Note: When using theTimeseries Tool you will be able to use the functions ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomBox, ZoomFull, Move and DistanceTool of the main graphical window.

Draw timeseries window, Preferences tab:

Draw timeseries window, IPF Options tab: